"Most people give up not knowing how close they were to success." - Unknown
‘Can you see anything?’ his assistant asked as Carter’s eyes adjusted
to the semi-darkness. Carter could see well enough, but he had
difficulty speaking because of the dazzling array of treasure spread out
before him. For more than two thousand years, tourists, grave robbers
and archaeologists had searched for the burial places of Egypt’s
Pharaohs. Armed with only a few scraps of evidence, British
archaeologist Howard Carter began his own explorations.
After
many years, Carter’s search seemed doomed to failure. Finally, Carter
unlocked an ancient Egyptian tomb. No one in the modern world had ever
seen anything like it.
